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From college to court, the story is the same

The first time the Winklevoss twins took their grievance to a higher authority, that authority was Larry Summers, the former US Treasury Secretary and President of Havard.

The meeting was reworked by Aaron Sorkin, the writer of The Social Network, into a richly comic scene, in which the twins, played by a single actor, Armie Hammer, claim that their fellow student, Mark Zuckerberg, had stolen an idea from them that “is potentially worth millions of dollars”.

Mr Summers, in response to their appeal and to their recourse to the Harvard ethics manual, asks his secretary to punch him in the face. He then advises them to “let your imaginations run away with you on a new project”.